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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#148	Overall
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Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2001

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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